ANNEX A

Performance Assessment

The publication of the Developing the Young Workforce –
Scotland’s Youth Employment strategy last December in
response
to the Education for All! report also set out our
commitment to report, on an annual basis, progress with
implementing the programme over its seven year lifespan.

In line with the Commission’s proposed approach, 11 key
performance indicators (
KPIs), were
developed, reflecting those areas where we would focus our efforts.
These indicators are long-term targets, reflecting the ambitions
and lifespan of the programme. They have been endorsed by the
Developing the Young Workforce Programme Board.

The programme’s impact, in terms of achieving the targets
set out in the 11
KPIs, will
take time and in some instances the lifetime of the programme. This
reflects both the level of ambition and the challenge involved. The
strategy also set out a number of milestones for each theme which
demonstrate what we expect to achieve over each year of the
programme and progress against these will be evident each year. It
should be noted that the indicators may be subject to further
refinement to fully capture the nature and level of the
programme’s ambition.

In this first annual progress report, and those that will
follow, we assess progress made over the year against our headline
target,
KPIs and
milestones. The headline target and
KPIs relate to
the programme as a whole, and progress against these measures is
set out in the table on Annex A below. Progress against the
theme-specific milestones is set out in the chapters which
follow.

We are currently in the process of developing an overall
evaluation framework to enable us to assess the success of the
programme as a whole against its intended outcomes.

Progress on Overarching Target and Key Performance
Indicators

The table below sets out, for each
KPI and our
overarching target, the baseline figure and current figure to
demonstrate progress made over the year. In addition, it sets out
the data source for each indicator and the frequency with which
that data is updated.

There are a number of
KPIs where
data is published for the first time this year (
KPIs 3 and 4,
explained in footnotes to the
KPI table) or
is not comparable with previous years (
KPIs 6 and 10,
explained in footnotes to the
KPI table).
For this reason, it is only possible to provide baselines figures
at this stage. We will monitor and report on the progress of these
indicators in forthcoming years.

Key Performance Indicators (
KPIs)
Table

KPI

Baseline figure

Current figure

Data source

Data frequency

Overarching target

To reduce the level of youth unemployment (excluding those
in full-time education) by 40 per cent by 2021

52,000 (Jan-Mar 2014)

41,000 (Jan-Mar 2015)

Labour Force Survey (
ONS)

Annual, using Jan-Mar data

KPI
1

Be one of the top five performing countries in the
EU for youth
unemployment by reducing the relative ratio of youth
unemployment to 25-64 unemployment to the level of the fifth
best country in the
EU by 2021